Perfect Search Corporation

Novell, Inc.

Moray B King

Ronald P Millett

Dale Allen Lowry

Samuel F Fletcher

Preston D Stephenson

Kent Sievers

Craig C Johnson

Dave Pratt

Junying Fan

Rod Meiners

Helaman Ferguson

Flattening a relational database. A method includes accessing a first database table. A first entry value is identified in a first entry from the first database table. The first entry value represents a plurality of entry values of corresponding entries in a second database table. An array is created that includes one or more representations of the plurality of entry values. At least a portion of the first database table is converted to one or more hierarchical record documents, with columns of the first database table represented at a first hierarchical level and values in entries in the columns represented at a second hierarchical level below the first hierarchical level for a corresponding column. Converting the first database table to one or more hierarchical record documents includes substituting the array in a hierarchical record document for each entry in the plurality of entries having the first entry value.

Multistage pipeline for feeding joined tables to a search system

XML-based integrated services framework

Growing community of inventors

Orem, UT, United States of America

Moray B King